As the years progressed, it became more obvious to me that, in a world where such things are rare, people long to laugh and love. They long to take time away from technology, to savour the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. They yearn to rise above the din so as to contemplate the sweet sound of children at play, of birdsong at dawn and of all those things which remind us that we are destined for much more than the dust.